The announcement from the department on Monday states that students earning a score of three or higher on an Advanced Placement test will earn at least three college credits, and students who earn a score of four or higher on an International Baccalaureate exam will also earn at least three college credits.

The percentage is slightly higher than the approximately 58 percent of students scoring a three or higher nationally.

“Prior to the change in guidelines, students who studied the same coursework, took the same exam, and earned the same score, would only sometimes attain the same amount of college credits,” said Lt. Gov. Joe Garcia, executive director of the Colorado Department of Higher Education, in a news release. “We developed our cut scores with student success as a central goal.”

The details of the Colorado Commission on Higher Education’s Prior Learning Assessment Policy, as it’s called, are being drafted with help from leaders of the state’s public colleges.

Yesenia Robles was a breaking news reporter for The Denver Post, working with the organization from 2010-2016. She covered education, crime and courts, and the northern suburbs. Raised in Denver, she graduated from the University of Colorado Boulder and is a native Spanish speaker.

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